Thursday, February 14, 2013

If Oxfam had of had their way, you and I would be conversing in German.

UNOFFICAL HISTORY OF OXFAM

Here’s some sordid history of Oxfam wants hidden away,
re-written to suit their current persona as all round good guys.

Going back to its beginnings the main man behind the
formation of Oxfam was Theodore Richard Milford, technically Cannon Theodore
Richard Milford.

This Quaker dominated rabble of upper-class landed Englishmen
weren’t initially just interested in humanitarian aid; they also thought the
Allies should cease hostilities with Germany and sue for peace.

Complete ‘put up the white flag’ madness.

At the time, 1942, the Luftwaffe was raining bombs down on
their houses, aid ships torpedoed by U-Boats, their countrymen dying in their
hundreds every-day, but these trifling facts didn’t deter the Oxford Committee
for Famine Relief.

Many of the original members, drivers like Professor Gilbert
Murray were scared from seeing action in World War One and believed strongly in
the League of Nations cure-all diplomacy.

Hitler didn’t.

The first charitable act undertaken by Oxfam in the middle
of WW2 was partitioning MP’s to break an Allied blockade of Axis dominated
Greece much to the chagrin of the British Government, Churchill in particular. Their
concerns that the aid would fall into enemy hands was in-part realised.

Oxfam likes to paint their relief of Greece as a personal success
but they don’t tell you is the Greeks were starving because the occupying Axis
troops were plundering their resources.

They leave out the bit that Hitler and Mussolini ran the
very same dictatorships Oxfam wanted their Government to negotiate with, for
all intents and purposes surrender to.

And in another David Irvingesque re-write of historic record
concerning the Greek Famine of WW2 it was the Red Cross that brokered a deal so
food could be delivered, undertook the logistics – not Oxfam, they proselytised
and raised funds only.

No one running the Allied war campaign took a bunch of idle
rich peaceniks like Oxfam seriously.

Ironically Oxfam’s first true on-the-ground undertaking was
to supply aid to a defeated and devastated Germany, campaigning for post-war Britain’s
to reduce their rations and donate those reductions to Germans.

That’s right you read it right: Oxfam’s first shipment of
humanitarian aid went to Germany.

The atlases at Oxford and Cambridge in 1946 can’t have had Africa
on them.

As you would expect, these manoeuvrings by Oxfam just after
WW2 went down like a cup of cold sick amongst their countrymen.

Many of Oxfam’s original leadership also had links to the
ultra-pacifist group The Peace Pledge Union who like the majority of Oxfam’s
members were Conscientious Objectors during WW2. The PPU were against the
bombing of Germany cities and in favour of repatriating captured Axis
prisoners. In short: nutters some of which actually went to Germany to work in a twisted belief they could broker a peace by integrating into Nazi Germany.

Both Oxfam and The Peace Pledge Union were despised by the
majority of Brits as unpatriotic freeloaders, de-facto collaborators - which in
reality, given the times, they were.

If Oxfam had of had their way, you and I would be conversing
in German.

Footnote: The Song below rather appropriately translates as ‘House
of Lies’